This shows the agony of mind of young child, whose instinct of
Thanatos spurred and waiting for his own death desperately.
Think of Beauty Queen: Eros and
Thanatos then as the artist's own De Kooning Woman.
Thanatos here has been linked with eros, the pleasure principle in Freud, as the book Introducing Freud: a Graphic Guide to the father of Psychoanalysis highlights:
She embarks on a quest to find
Thanatos, the death god who is the only one who can save John.
In the case of Polish Cavalry, some professional readers may, for example, conclude that a reading in terms of Freud's views on Eros and
Thanatos is inescapable.
This duality of Eros and
Thanatos is presented here as 'the eternal conflict at the centre of human civilisation'.
The rapid dissemination of the image replicated a number of frames of interpretation that audiences engaged across and within mediated sites including frames of naturalism, the dualism of eros (love or life instinct) and
thanatos (death instinct), and the transient trends of popular culture.
It derived from the classical Greek notion of the world as strung between the struggle for supremacy between Eros (Life) and
Thanatos (Death).